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Author : Marjorie M. Halpin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Tsimshian Indians
ISBN : UOM:39015014730835
Author : Clarence R. Bolt
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774842860
In Thomas Crobsy and the Tsimshian: Small Shoes for Feet Too Large, Clarence Bolt demonstrates that the Indians were conscious participants in the acculturation and conversion process -- as long as this met their goals -- and not merely passive receivers of the blessings as typically reported by the missionaries. In order to understand the complexities of Indian-European contact, Bolt argues, one must look at the reasons for the Indians' behaviour as well as those of the Europeans. He points out that the Indians actively influenced the manner in which their relationships with the white population developed, often resulting in a complex interaction in which the values of both groups rubbed off on each other.
Author : Margaret Seguin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0774804734
This volume examines Tsimshian culture from the prehistoric period to the recent past and includes contributions from such diverse perspectives as archaeology, linguistics, and social anthropology. The contributors demonstrate a balance between current fieldwork and careful archival analysis, as they build on the voluminous materials that are a legacy of the scholarship of such major figures as Boas, Barbeau, Tate, and Garfield. The book includes chapters on the crest system and participation of the Tsimshian in the 'non-Native' economy of the region and introduces much original material on shamanism, basket making, and feasting.
Author : Jay Miller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803282664
The Tsimshians are a Northwest Coast Native people known for their dazzling works of art and rich array of social, religious, and oral traditions that have captured the attention of scholars for over a century. Jay Miller brings together for the first time a wealth of material about the Tsimshians, presenting an unforgettable picture of their cultural universe. That universe is built around the metaphor of light, which was brought into the world by Raven; its refraction forms the chief social, religious, and symbolic institutions of Tsimshian culture. Family heraldic crests express light in one way, masks in another. Miller argues convincingly that the genius of Tsimshian culture, and one of the main reasons for its continuing vitality, is that its people are sensitive to different, and often creative, ways of capturing and embodying light.
Author : Margaret Seguin
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772822618
An archival and ethnographic account of Coast Tsimshian feast traditions with emphasis on their role as forms of discourse shaped by idiosyncratic textual conventions.
Author : Marjorie M. Halpin,Margaret Seguin Anderson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774842501
William Beynon was born in 1888 in Victoria to a Welsh father and a Tsimshian mother. He was an accomplished ethnographer and had a long career documenting the traditions of the Tsimshian, Nisga'a, and Gitksan. In 1945 he attended and actively participated in five days of potlatches and totem pole raisings at Gitksan village of Gitsegukla. There he compiled four notebooks containing detailed and often verbatim information about the events he witnessed. For over 50 years these notebooks have seen limited circulation among specialists, who have long recognized them as the most perceptive and complete account of potlatching ever recorded.
Author : Franz Boas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Tsimshian Indians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048891639
Author : Christopher F. Roth
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295989235
The Tsimshian people of coastal British Columbia use a system of hereditary name-titles in which names are treated as objects of inheritable wealth. Human agency and social status reside in names rather than in the individuals who hold these names, and the politics of succession associated with names and name-taking rituals have been, and continue to be, at the center of Tsimshian life. Becoming Tsimshian examines the way in which names link members of a lineage to a past and to the places where that past unfolded. At traditional potlatch feasts, for example, collective social and symbolic behavior �gives the person to the name.� Oral histories recounted at a potlatch describe the origins of the name, of the house lineage, and of the lineage's rights to territories, resources, and heraldic privileges. This ownership is renewed and recognized by successive generations, and the historical relationship to the land is remembered and recounted in the lineage's chronicles, or adawx. In investigating the different dimensions of the Tsimshian naming system, Christopher F. Roth draws extensively on recent literature, archival reference, and elders in Tsimshian communities. Becoming Tsimshian, which covers important themes in linguistic and cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, will be of great value to scholars in Native American studies and Northwest Coast anthropology, as well as in linguistics.
Author : Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1646 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0802058566
Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.
Author : Roderick Sprague,Deward E. Walker, Jr.
Publisher : Northwest Anthropology
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Franz Boas and the Bella Coola in Berlin - Douglas Cole Prehistoric Settlement and Land Use in the Dry Columbia Basin - James C. Chatters Tsimshian Moieties and Other Clarifications - Jay Miller Horizontal Log Construction Corner Types - Margaret L. Glover Archaeology for the Future: The Preservation of Archaeological Collections 1. Introduction - Kevin Erickson 2. Archaeological Preservation and the Future of Archaeology - Jeffrey E. Mauger 3. Curation Management: Ethics, Integrity, and Accountability - Leonard Williams 4. Archaeological Curation and the Law - Sheila A. Stump 5. Archaeological Collections and the Trash Bin Syndrome - Thomas H. Loy 6. The Preservation of Written and Printed Archaeological Records - Roderick Sprague 7. Photographic Preservation for the Archaeologist - J. Michael Short 8. Thoughts on the Collection, Conservation, and Curation of Faunal Remains - David R. Huelsbeck and Gary Wessen
Author : Frederica De Laguna,Alfred Irving Hallowell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803280084
The formative years of American anthropology were characterized by intellectual energy and excitement, the identification of key interpretive issues, and the beginnings of a prodigious amount of fieldwork and recording. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) was born as anthropology emerged as a formal discipline with specialized subfields; fieldwork among Native communities proliferated across North America, yielding a wealth of ethnographic information that began to surface in the flagship journal, the American Anthropologist; and researchers increasingly debated and probed deeper into the roots and significance of ritual, myth, language, social organization, and the physical make-up and prehistory of Native Americans. The fifty-five selections in this volume represent the interests of and accomplishments in American anthropology from the establishment of the American Anthropologist through World War I. The articles in their entirety showcase the state of the subfields of anthropology?archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology?as they were imagined and practiced at the dawn of the twentieth century. Examples of important ethnographic accounts and interpretive debates are also included. Introducing this collection is a historical overview of the beginnings of American anthropology by A. Irving Hallowell, a former president of the AAA.
Author : Guy Lanoue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000323245
A provocative analysis of a nativist movement.The creation of a huge artificial lake in western Canada led to the flooding of prime hunting and trapping territory of the Sekani Indians thus depriving them of their traditional occupations and livelihood. This caused considerable social distress resulting in a drastic increase of alcohol consumption and violence and seriously disrupting social relationships. Some Sekani made efforts to create new ties of solidarity through the adoption of Pan-Indianism however this ideology did not prove effective. The author concludes that their lack of unity stemmed from the same factionalism which characterized their personal relationships.
Author : Susan Neylan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0773525734
A study of Protestant missionization among the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples of the North Pacific Coast of British Columbia during the latter half of the nineteenth century
Author : George F. MacDonald
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780774845069
The Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia constructed some of the most magnificent houses and erected some of the most beautifully carved totem poles on the Northwest Coast. During the last quarter of the nineteenth-century, images of the Haida's immense cedar houses and soaring totem poles were captured, first on glass plates and later on film, by photographers who travelled to then-remote villages such as Masset and Skidegate to marvel at, and record, what they saw there. Haida Monumental Art, initially published as a limited edition hardcover and finally available in paperback, includes a large number of these remarkable photographs, selected from a collection of over 10,000 original prints and photographic plates. They depict the Haida villages at the height of their glory and record their tragic deterioration only a few decades later. As well, this edition contains the complete text from the first edition, including site plans and detailed descriptions of fifteen major villages and several smaller sites, which are catalogued by house and pole. By combining archeology and ethnohistory, George MacDonald presents an integrated framework for understanding the physical structure of a Haida village. He explains how the houses and poles are part of a fascinating web of myth, family history and Haida cosmology, which provides a unique insight into Haida culture.
Author : John Cove
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773595668
A sociological study of the myths and social and religious practices of the Tsimshian, with particular emphasis on concepts of chieftainship, shamanism, totemism and secret societies.